![]() To see how the shape of West Virginia's counties have changed over time, we recommend the Atlas of Historical County Boundaries. If you're in a similar situation, we hope that the following information helps. If we hadn't included the neighboring counties, we would have missed many valuable sources of information. So when searching for records, we had our best success by looking in neighboring counties instead of the county in which they lived: their home county contained property and probate records the county to the east contained birth and death records the county to the north contained their burial records. Almost all of the nearby churches and cemeteries were in the county to the north. During their lives, most doctors were in the next county to the east. When searching for family records, we have frequently made the mistake of not checking the neighboring counties.įor example, we have great-grandparents who lived in the northeast corner of their home county. While we don't have information that is specific to any given person or family, we intend to expand our understanding about where and how people lived. We hope that this tool helps to give us an insight into their world.Īs we add data and organize our Gazetteer to help with our family research, we will be adding to this our Genealogical Helper for Kessel. On our trips, we try to visit those places where our ancestors left their footprints.īy learning about Kessel (and the surrounding area) during the time that our ancestors lived, we hope to have a better understanding of both their community and its relationship to their lifes. ![]()
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